Community mediation practitioners in Nigeria are showing that early intervention can stop conflict before it escalates to large-scale violence. Felicia…
Browsing: Terrorism
Terrorism attacks and deaths fell sharply worldwide in 2025, including in parts of Africa, but the numbers might tell a…
Sahelian terrorist groups and criminal gangs are leveraging an expanding insurgency corridor in Nigeria’s Kebbi-Kainji-Borgu triangle to expand their influence,…
The African Union, the United Nations and other international partners have helped create increasingly sophisticated regional coordination mechanisms, but those…
The Alliance of Sahel States’ new Unified Force (AES Unified Force) seeks to strengthen counterterrorism efforts in Burkina Faso, Mali and…
About a dozen Malian soldiers and Russian mercenaries died in a recent ambush by terrorists near the city of Nampala…
Senegal’s eastern Bakel Department has become the focal point for the government’s effort to prevent terrorist incursions from Mali. Jama’at…
Niger’s western Tillabéri region has emerged as the deadliest area in the central Sahel for civilians due to an uptick…
A dispute over freshwater access is brewing in southern Africa. Zimbabwe is building Gwayi-Shangani Lake, a reservoir to guarantee a…
Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorists and Yemen’s Houthi militants have long been known to cooperate across the Red Sea, capitalizing on entrenched…